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Filmscape

Jul 27, 2022 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

With Esoterica

Filmscape #7

Howdy, all your films faves! In oine place...

3:00 PM		The Blasters Border Radio The Blasters The Blasters Rhino/Slash 1981 Allison Anders film, Border Radio, featured Dave Alvin.
3:05 PM		Billy Preston Nothing from Nothing Billy Preston The Kids & Me A&M 1974 "Nothing from Nothing" is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher and recorded by Billy Preston for his 1974 album The Kids & Me. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in October 1974, becoming Preston's second solo chart-topper in the United States (following his 1973 hit "Will It Go Round in Circles".
3:07 PM		The Delfonics Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) The Delfonics The Delfonics Music Company Europe RIP William Hart. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/william-hart-dead-delfonics-lead-singer-77-1235181196/
3:11 PM		Bobby Womack & Peace Across 110th Street Across 110th Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) MGM Music 2008 The film is set in Harlem and takes its name from 110th Street, the traditional dividing line between Harlem and Central Park that functioned as an informal boundary of race and class in 1970s New York City.
3:14 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:20 PM		Jon Brion Theme Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) Hollywood Records 2004
3:20 PM		James Warren Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime (Original Demo) James Warren Jim's Easy Listening Album Angel Air Records 1995 Used in rolling end credits for Eternal Sunshine.
3:24 PM		George Gillies, Carrie Fletcher & Emma Williams Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Truly Scrumptious Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Original London Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway 2002
3:28 PM		David Bowie Nature Boy Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film Moulin Rouge (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Interscope 2016 Nature Boy info: George Alexander Aberle, known as eden ahbez, was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s to 1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential in the hippie movement. He was known to friends simply as ahbe.
3:31 PM		Clip from "Head" the Monkees film Clip from "Head" the Monkees film 1968 From Raybert Productions, RIP Bob Rafelson.
3:33 PM		Rufus Wainwright Complainte de la Butte Rufus Wainwright Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film Moulin Rouge (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Interscope 2016
3:37 PM		Me Phi Me Revival! Reality Bites (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) RCA Records Label 1994
3:41 PM		Paul Westerberg Dyslexic Heart Paul Westerberg Singles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Epic Soundtrax 1992
3:45 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:54 PM		Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (If Only You Could) Save Me Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Mank (Original Musical Score) The Null Corporation 2020
3:56 PM		Dooley Wilson As Time Goes By Dooley Wilson Casablanca (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) WaterTower Music 1997 1943 release. Director: Michael Curtiz Music by: Max Steiner Adapted from: Everybody Comes to Rick's.
3:58 PM		Bambi Little April Shower Bambi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Walt Disney Records 1942
4:02 PM		James Cagney, Orchestra & Chorus Yankee Doodle Dandy (Orchestra Version) Yankee Doodle Dandy (O.S.T - 1942) Vintage Music 2012
4:07 PM		Betty Noyes No Longer an Elephant / Dumbo's Sadness / A Visit In the Night / Baby Mine Dumbo (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) Walt Disney Records 1997 Dumbo was released October 23, 1941.
4:11 PM		The Dwarf Chorus Heigh-Ho Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Walt Disney Records 1997 Released February 4, 1938.
4:14 PM		Chaim Topol Tevye's Dream Chaim Topol Fiddler on the Roof (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) EMI/EMI Records (USA) 1971 Fiddler on the Roof is a 1971 American epic historical musical film produced and directed by Norman Jewison, and written by Joseph Stein and Sholem Aleichem. An adaptation of the 1964 Broadway musical of the same name, it stars Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, and Paul Mann. The film centers on Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman living in Anatevka, who is faced with the challenge of marrying off his five daughters amidst the growing tension in his village.
4:17 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:27 PM		Screaming Trees Nearly Lost You Screaming Trees Singles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Epic Soundtrax 1992
4:29 PM		Gavin Friday Angel William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet Capitol Records 2007
4:34 PM		Cesária Evora Besame Mucho (Bonus Track) Great Expectations - The Album (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Bonus Track Version] Atlantic Records 1997
4:39 PM		Aimee Mann Momentum Aimee Mann Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture) Reprise 1999
4:45 PM		Tammy Wynette Stand By Your Man Tammy Wynette Five Easy Pieces Epic/Legacy 1970
4:48 PM		Clip from Five Easy Pieces (1970) Clip from Five Easy Pieces (1970) 1970 Great scene with Clip from Five Easy Pieces (1970) with Helena Kallianiotes
4:51 PM		Ray Conniff Those Were the Days Ray Conniff Roma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Masterworks 2018
4:57 PM		Carly Simon In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning R SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (Original Soundtrack) Sony Music Labels Inc. 1994 Going out to RG!
4:59 PM		Gene Autry Back In the Saddle Again Gene Autry Sleepless In Seattle (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Epic Soundtrax 1993

Chat is archived.

howdy

Wow! Another DJ named Esoterica! Just enjoyed a show hosted by a DJ Esoterica!!!

I count more than OINE typo in the show description 😄😇

i saw

bad eso

HeeHeeHee

Esoterica - Been here in Princeton x 4 years after being in Santa Monica/Venice for 20 years. Where were you last in SoCal?

hey francis! i am from San Diego but also went to college in Claremont and lived in West Hollywood after college.

hello, hello ! how was your time off?

howdy, tom!

Hello esoterica!

The W Hollywood Halloween street party was always a blast - some wild costumes

Across 110th Street ❤️ Good film with Yaphet Kotto ❤️ and Anthony Quinn ❤️

hi bo!

EnterWebs says: The film is set in Harlem and takes its name from 110th Street, the traditional dividing line between Harlem and Central Park that functioned as an informal boundary of race and class in 1970s New York City.

thanks for. that, mr. m. i will put in playlist

Based on cast and plot I bought it on Blu-ray to watch for the first time from a nice sale at the distributor Kino Lorber. Now I want the soundtrack too!

Obi Wan Kenobi?!?

nice!

★🖤 DAVID BOWIE 🖤★

‘Nature Boy’ ♥️

Oh hello

OMG

The first version of the Nat King Cole hit “Nature Boy” I heard was the Great Society’s.

yes i know cole's version, too. hi david

RIP Bob Rafelson

OMG celebrity siighting! hi commie

i can't type

yes, i love five easy pieces

Nature boy is one of those songs that's been covered a million times, awesome song

THE MONKEES❣️ 🙈🙉🙊🐵🐒 the fifth monkee is DJ CommieFrancis!

Luv RUFUS WAINWRIGHT & this tune 💜💜

MrM!!!!

i luv rufus, unmistakable voice

commie francis, thanks kindly for filling in next Thursday:)

Yeah i don't know this song but i knew who it was!

You're very welcome!

I have to hear RUFUS WAINWRIGHT from a performance on late night with Jimmy Fallon at winter holidays of ‘Minuit Crétien’ several times a year I don’t give a truck. I’m cry.

“What is your Glitch?!”

will check that out, mr. m (rufus)

You tube has it as a different song title. Look it up as Rufus Wainwright and Jimmy Fallon. Music accompaniment from THE ROOTS. I’m cry, again. Super nice!

I recently purchased this soundtrack❗️

sweet!

love some Rufus, seen him a couple times, Poses album is a classic

agree he is great

Am I to infer that “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” was once a London stage musical? I know the movie was by Eon Productions, that also makes the James Bond films. Apropos, considering it was Ian Fleming who wrote the children’s book! In fact, Gert Frobe, who played “Goldfinger”, also played the villain in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”!

Yes No7 !

Unless you choose to count DJ Krista’s sub show?

i think winona ryder was prob in all those grunge era flicks, lol

"Singles" was Seattle-set, yet a WFMU decal can be seen it years before the NJ station appeared on the world wide web.

David Shortell, that info is melting my brainz 🧠🔥

Re: ChittyBOND

WestSiiidddeeeHippies!

🤪🤣

Saw several great live performances of Nature Boy instrumental by David Grisman Quintet back 20-25 yrs ago

nice, Michael! and helllooo:)

That sounds great, Brian D!

wow, bri:)

Monkees Head is playing at the Mahoning Drive in on 8/14 + two tv episodes

Oh, and tv episodes!!

nice! i had a crush on peter

TRENT REZИOR ❤️‍🔥

yup, i am with you, mr. m

I concur 😉

"Casablanca" screens 7:00 tomorrow night at the Princeton Garden Theatre.

I still want to see the film Mank.

no, it is great!

do see it, oldman is so good

cool, david!

This is BRILLIANT 🦌🤎

yes tho it is a devastating film wahhhh

Yeah. Such is life.

true

Was gonna suggest something from the Disney Alice in Wonderland soundtrack for a future show. Yesterday was the anniversary of the world premiere of the film. EnterWebs says: Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The thirteenth release of Disney's animated features, the film premiered in London on July 26, 1951, and in New York City on July 28, 1951.

@ Esoterica (host) Another 5-star Filmscape show! Did you know "As Time Goes By" was originally written to answer the implications of Albert Einstein theories of relativity? That's right: the unsettling notions that space bends, that time is not absolute, etc. The original song had an intro ending: "We're getting rather weary/ Of Mr. Einstein and his theory," continuing then into the main song with "But ... You must remember this/ A kiss is still a kiss/ A sigh is still a sigh ..."

oh nice, mr. m, i will try to get it on for ya

wow fascinating, richard! thanks for posting:)

Fun show DJ Esoterica. Great fill-in for DJ Deirdre Dionysiac too!!

That’s a hoot, Richard from RockyHill !

aw thanks, richard!

@ Esoterica (host) Of course, when "As Time Goes By" became generally popular song -- and especially its use in the classic movie "Casablanca," the original intro was dropped into the black hole of forgotten Tin Pan Alley lore ...

oh interesting!

Uh oh, Dumbo too?! I’m cry. 🐘 🎪

haha no cry

I just want a flying elephant! 😭

lol

Awww Hellz Yeeaahh, DWARFS!

Hi DJ Esoterica! Sun Ra and his Arkestra used to enter the venue tthru the audience, chanting “Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work we go”!

Hello all, wow to hear Snow White!

And I see Bambi on the list!

Hi Os! Yup!

love it, Wes! ha!

Expect Alice in Wonderland, Lady and The Tramp, Cinderella, Pinocchio these days!

yup in the next few weeks, for sure:)

this scene in fiddler scared me, i was only five when this came out haha

my parents brought me to see everything

I only knew of Topol from James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. (Billed as one name Topol in that). Didn't see Fiddler for many years later.

oh yeah, bri, i recall him in that

@ Esoterica (host) Credit to Lisa Randall, Harvard (and one-time Princeton) theoretical physics professor. In her book Warped Dimensions, she cites the original opening of Herman Hupfeld's 1931 song: "This day and age we're living in/Give cause for apprehension/With speed and new invention/And things like fourth dimension/Yet we get a trifle weary/With Mr. Einstein's theory ..."

Ok now some rock n roll nice

Callahan checking in hello!

hey callahan!

Let’s cancel Albert Einstein! People seemed really sick of that dude! 🤠🤠🤠

I’ll request anything from the soundtrack to Absolute Beginners. Julien Temple’s 1986 movie musical.

When i think of Head, Shatner doing Mr. Tambourine Man comes to mind...

oh yes I will jot that down, love temple

yes inspector, great!

stop, mr. m!

Hahaha

Sounds like rnb legend, Maxwell

yes agree, os!

love maxwell

I adore many like Lifetime, This Woman's Work and 1990x!

totally:)

Guess you could say Wall of Vodoo is border radio?

CESÁRIA ÉVORA 💟 (note spelling of last name)

thx!!

oh yeah, inspector! true

AIMEE MANN 💖

have you seen pt anderson's magnolia, it is great

No. Didn’t remember he directed it! No spoilers.

Me too!

I would never spoil the bizarre, unexpected climax to "Magnolia", Ꮇя. M.

Bizarre, unexpected?! Must see!

yes!

And as mentioned before in chat... one of the hitchhikers is played by Toni Basil. One of the first times I was ever in the wprb spinitron chat we talked about that. Way back 2020

"Caligula" released in theaters this date 1980

“I want you to hold it between your knees”

wow, with john hurt in title role, kinky, as was the historical context haha

Standing by.

@inspector

fantastic, jon

haha mr. m

couldn't possibly not chime in after almost requesting this song from sleepless in seattle sound track....

I think one Wednesday all DJs oughta do film soundtracks as theme! Huh?! Yeah!?

yes, absolutely, RG:) next week?

Yay, TAMMY WYNETTE‼️

another excellent show today

aw thx tom

Final Ten Mins?! You did it, DJ Esoterica! Five hours! Very impressed! Biggest cheers to you!

phew!

I believe Inspector Callahan refers to the disastrous movie starring Malcolm McDowell, Esoterica. John Hurt played Caligula in the miniseries “I, Claudius”.

thanks, mr. m:)

Next show is not next week!

hi Esoterica, unlikely i'll catch your show next weeek. will be out of the country. I'll try my best!

oh right! yes malcolm, i have seen both, but i loved i claudius

You are correct sir!

oh thanks, rg, i appreicate you, i will save for two weeks then

Safe travels, R G!

yes safe travels, rg xx

@Esoterica (host) Another mighty episode of Filmscape. I can't wait 'til the CD boxed set retrospective of the entire series comes out. Thanks again, Esoterica.

ha! richard! grin indeed. thanks kindly

Nice to hear some banjo 🪕 - in Those Were The Days ! Great show, @Esoterica!

Programming with mystery and intrigue love it!

Didn't McCartney write this for Mary Hopkin?

i got it, RG!

DJ Esoterica! Many thanks for sharing all these great tunes over two shows! Biggest cheers! Take good care! Kind regards!

Thanks, eveyone!!

everyone

haha

Safe travels, @RG! ✈️🚢

Fine show indeed, thank you esoterica!

Great sounds from the 20s to 80s

Cheers to all the Dears, especially those with Big Dumbo Ears!

aw thanks ossy, bo, wes, david, et al, and Mr. m, your request will be played tomorrow!

Anytime! Thanks! 🖤💀

btw thank you.... you already played my request....tammy wynette

No, Macca just produced it.

Great show Thank You!

Thanks for the great show ESO!!!

of course, rebecca:)

aw thx richard! and everyone! see you tomorrow at noon:)

thanks inspector

cheers dears